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See Letter with All Signatures NGO COMMITTEE on Daughters Of Charity NGO FINANCING for DEVELOPMENT (FFD) Your Excellency, 12 July 2011 We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations are writing to request that, at the upcoming deliberations of the Economic and Social Council 2011, your government endorses the draft resolution E/2010/L.37 for the establishment of an “Ad hoc panel of experts on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development”. We share the concern of countries of the global South about the impact on development of the world financial crisis and of the need for adequate responses so as to avoid its recurrence, restore global economic stability and promote underlying institutional reforms required to ensure sustained global economic development for the benefit of all. There is a general need to strengthen and broaden the participation of developing countries in global economic governance. Therefore, we strongly support this draft resolution on the establishment of an expert panel within the United Nations. In line with the mandates of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, the expert panel could produce independent technical analysis and provide recommendations on global financial, economic and systemic issues. Such a panel of experts would foster constructive exchanges among UN member states and include dialogue among policymakers, academics, institutions and members of civil society. Recommendations would be made available to the Economic and Social Council and to the General Assembly. We appreciate the role of the United Nations as the inclusive and legitimate global body and think it is time that the UN takes bold steps for reform to improve global economic governance. The representatives of the following NGOs thank you for your consideration of our concerns in this matter. Sincerely yours, Kevin Dance, CEO, Passionists International, Representative; Chair of the NGO Committee on Financing for Development Germaine Price, Main Representative, Company of The Daughters of Charity of St.Vincent De Paul, USA 1 Fatima Rodrigo, Main NGO Representative, International Presentation Association of the Sisters of the Presentation (PBVM) Eva Hanfstaengl, Director, Social Justice in Global Development, international, based in Germany Manuel Manonelles, Director, UBUNTU Forum, Spain Signatories: Soren Ambrose, International Policy Manager, ACTIONAID international, Kenya, UK, USA David Ugolor, Executive Director, African Network for Environment and Economic Justice, (ANEEJ), Nigeria Josephine Kamel Youssef, African Women's Economic Policy Network (AWEPON) Mark Herkenrath, Policy Officer, ALLIANCE SUD – The Swiss Coalition of Development Organisations, Switzerland Ziad Abdel Samad, Executive Director, ARAB NGO NETWORK for Development, Lebanon Lydia Alpizar, Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) Andreas Missbach, Joint Managing Director, Private Finance Programme, BERNE DECLARATION, Switzerland Nick Roseveare, Chief Executive, Bond, UK National Platform of Development NGOs, UK Jesse Griffiths, Coordinator, BRETTON WOODS PROJECT, United Kingdom Joanne Green, Head of Policy, CAFOD, UK Renate Bloem, Main Representative, CIVICUS UN Geneva, World Alliance of Citizen Participation Md Shamsuddoha, Chief Executive, Center for Participatory Research and Development – CPRD, Bangladesh Pankaj Sharma, Chief Trustee, Centre for transforming India, India Aldo Caliari; Director, Rethinking Bretton Woods Project, CENTER OF CONCERN (CoC), USA Alex Cobham, Chief Policy Adviser, CHRISTIAN AID, United Kingdom Bernd Nilles, Secretary General, CIDSE INTERNATIONAL, based in Brussels, Belgium Mary Corbett, cnd, Representative to the NGO Forum of the UN Congregation of Notre Dame (CND) of Montreal, Canada Amy Echeverria, Director, Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach, USA Griselda Martinez Morales, CSJ, Main representative, Congregations of St Joseph, USA 2 Mary Ellen Gondeck, CSJ, Caroline Benken, CSJ, Marilyn Nickol, CSJ, Germaine Tackett, CSJA and Mary Ellen Loch, CSJ, Peace and Justice Team, The Congregation of St. Joseph, USA Norayda Arabella Ponce Sosa, External Cooperation Executive, Coordinación de ONG y Cooperativas (CONGCOOP), Guatemala, Central America P.A. Surendran, General Secretary, Consumers Association, Palakkad, Kerala, India Rudy De Meyer, Head of Policy Department, 11.11.11 Coordination of Flemish North South Movement, Belgium Antonio Tricarico, Coordinator, CRBM, Italy Gigi Francisco, General Coordinator, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) Eika Rosario, Programme Officer, Philippines and Executive Committee, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) Margaret Mayce - Main Representative for Dominican Leadership Conference, USA Jeroen Kwakkenbos, Policy Officer, European Network on Debt and Development, EURODAD international, based in Brussels Hélène Debbari, Policy Advisor, EUROSTEP Secretariat, international, based in Brussels Jürgen Kaiser, Policy Coordinator, ERLASSJAHR, Germany Markus Brun, Head of Policy, FASTENOPFER, Switzerland Rosa Lizarde, Feminist Task Force of the Global Call to Action against Poverty Mama Koité Doumbia, WWG/FDF, The African Women's Development and Communication Network FEMNET Sergio Marelli, Secretary General, FOCSIV (Federazione Organismi Cristiani Servizio Internazionale Volontario), Italy Damiano Sabuzi Giuliani, Policy and Advocacy officer, FOCSIV (Federazione Organismi Cristiani Servizio Internazionale Volontario), Italy Juan Carlos Nuñez, Executive Director, Fundacion Jubileo, Bolivia Kenneth Nana Amoateng, Project and Programs Director, Abibimman Foundation, GCAP - Ghana Rajesh Latchman, Convenor, Global Call To Action Against Poverty/ GCAP - South Africa Mareatile Polaki, Global Call To Action Against Poverty/ GCAP - Lesotho Ali AlBarmaky, Deputy Manager of Civil Society Organizations Network-Yemen, Member of the GCAP - Yemen, Member in Yemeni coalition against corruption 3 Dennis Nyati, National Coordinator, Civil Society MDG Campaign - GCAP Zambia, Zambia Francine Mestrum, Global Social Justice, Belgium Hansha Sanjyal , Global South Initiative, Nepal Helene Connor, Ph.D., President, HELIO INTERNATIONAL, France Mary Turgi, CSC, Director, Holy Cross International Justice Office, Notre Dame, IN, United States Matyas Benyik, President, Hungary Association of ATTAC, Hungary Paul Quintos, Program Manager, IBON International, Philippines Don K. Marut, Executive Director, International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID), Indonesia Gopal Krishna Siwakoti, President, INHURED International, Deputy-Chair, Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), National Election Observation Committee (NEOC), Nepal Laura Berry, Executive Director, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), USA Cristina Blanc Szanton, PhD, Main Representative at the U.N., International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), USA Eva Friedlander, President, International Women's Anthropology Conference (IWAC), USA Nick Dearden, JUBILEE DEBT CAMPAIGN, UK Francois Gobbe, Coordinator, KAIROS EUROPE WB, Belgium John Dillon, Global Economic Justice Coordinator, KAIROS: Canadian, Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, Canada Michael Gatt, Board Member and Treasurer, KOPIN, Malta Ara Jo, Korea Civil Society Forum on International Development Cooperation (KoFID), Republic of Korea Janice G. Foerde, KULU Chairperson, K.U.L.U.-Women and Development, Denmark Oriana Suáre, LATINDADD, Latin American Network on Debt, Development and Rights, based in Peru Mary Peter Bruce, SL, Loretto Community, USA Sally Dunne, NGO UN Representative, Loretto Community, USA Giosuè De Salvo, Head Of Advocacy, Mani Tese, Italy Steven O'Neil, SM, Marianists International, USA 4 Kathleen McNeely , Program Coordinator – Faith Economy Ecology Project , Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, USA Marie Dennis, Director, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns representing two NGOs: Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominica and Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers Celine Paramunda, UN Representative, Medical Mission Sisters, AKA Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries, USA Daniel LeBlanc O.M.I., Main NGO representative to the UN and Secretary of NGO Committee on FfD, Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (GS-JPIC), Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, USA Edwin M John, Director, Neighbourhood Community Network (NCN), India Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, USA Curtis Doebbler, Representative, Nord-Sud XXI, Geneva, Switzerland Lucianne Siers, Executive Director, Partnership for Global Justice, USA Pamela Haines, Quaker Witness on Economy and Ecology, Philadelphia, PA, USA Patricia Stella Jaramillo Gerra, REPEM COLOMBIA, IGTN Punto Focal Colombia Joan P. Mencher, Chair of The Second Chance Fd, NYC, USA Marta Benavides, SERR - El Salvador, Siglo XXIII - El Salvador Jean Stoner, SNDdeN, NGO Representative at the UN, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, USA Faith Colligan, DC, UN Representative, Sisters of Charity Federation, USA Caroljan Willie, NGO Representative, Sisters of Charity Federation, USA Ann Oestreich IHM, Congregation Justice Coordinator, Sisters of the Holy Cross Notre Dame, USA David Hillman, Director, Stamp Out Poverty, UK Herbert Sahlmann, Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücken, Germany John Christensen, Tax Justice Network international, based in UK Kate Twohy, The Grail, USA Bhumika Muchhala, Finance and Development Programme, THIRD WORLD NETWORK (TWN) Marco Berlinguer, President, Transform! Italia, Italy
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